Database Administrator
| Company | Amentum |
|---|---|
| Location | Washington, DC, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Mid Level |
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent experience.
- Database Administrator with experience with PostgreSQL on AWS.
- Experience with mission critical, complex environments, high availability and data security regulations for FISMA high environment.
- Experience conducting database administration activities such as user account management, database maintenance, updates, data migration, data backups, data security, performance tuning, and upgrades as needed.
- Experience with maintenance of data replication solutions.
- Experience developing database automations and trusted language extensions.
- Experience establishing and maintaining of security and integrity controls.
- Collaborate with client technical staff, key partners, developers, product and program management.
- Work in an Agile Environment and support multiple agile teams.
- Manage and appropriately escalate data related, risks, issues, and challenges.
- Address any issues related to database data, security and performance.
- Skill in writing and editing documents at a professional level
- Superior customer service skills and ability to professionally collaborate with peers and upper management.
- Candidate will be required to obtain a Bureau of Prisons MBI or BI Security Clearance, which may take six (6) months or longer depending on candidate circumstances.
- Candidate must be either a U.S. Citizen or possess a valid green card.
Responsibilities
- The Database Administrator provides database administration to include but not limited to: database details, database tuning, database query performance analysis, database replication, database schema updates, database backups, database user management, and database reporting of an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL databases.
- The Database Administrator develops automations with Cloud Formation and Lambda to provide consistent and repeatable provisioning, deployments, replication, and reporting.
- The Database Administrator works on administration of the Development, Training, and Production databases and supports application deployments that may or may not involve schema updates throughout the environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AWS native tools, Relational Database Service (RDS), and Amazon Aurora Global Databases.
- Experience developing and maintaining infrastructure as code using AWS Cloud Formation (CFN).
- Experience developing and maintaining lambda functions written in Python.
- Experience with mainframe modernization.